Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay - B. Springsteen

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. - 2 Tim 4:3-4

My pound of LNF weighs more than either the pound of feathers or pound of lead because I had to put it in all these little glass jars.

Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay - B. Springsteen

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. - 2 Tim 4:3-4

Tobacco tale of woe: So I picked up a clay pipe today in Colonial Williamsburg. Through research I found that these clay tavern pipes they sell all over Colonial Williamsburg are in fact made by Old Dominion Pipes - it's their “Williamsburg” model. I was excited about trying this out, having read some positive stuff about clay pipes. I also visited Havana Connections a couple miles away. They're a small cigar shop that also carries some pipes and pipe tobacco. I saw they had in a large bulk jar a tobacco they call “Commonwealth” which, to my eyes, looks just like Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake (the only really similar looking flake I've seen is Escudo, but that doesn't have the cavendish center. Also, the store stocks “Proper English” bulk, so I can't imagine this is anything other than LBF) So I asked the guy working the counter if he could confirm that this is LBF being called by a different name. I couldn't get a straight answer from him - IDK if he was being evasive or ignorant.

Anyway - I got back to the motel and loaded a bowl of Commonwealth, noting how dry the tobacco seemed. Oh, my gosh - it was incredibly tasteless. Idk if it's all the air getting into the massive jars (air that was likely regularly permeated with cigar smoke - 4 people with Cigars burning when my wife and I walked in) The Virginias seem almost non-existent, and the perique is the most noticeable thing here. I wasn't all that impressed with the taste of it in the clay pipe. So upon finishing the pipe, I loaded some Star of the East flake from a jar I've been smoking, and found the taste to be noticably different as well, and not necessarily in a good way. The bowl gets hot, and the clay gives off a cool, dry smoke, but it just isn't the same taste as a briar or cob pipe. I don't know exactly how to describe it, but the overall smoking experience isn't at all what I'm used to enjoying. I guess the pipe just needs some breakin-in.

I decided to give the supposed LBF another try, this time in my Peterson 999. It was better than out of the clay, but it still not an enjoyable smoke, and I'm probably going to trash the rest of the bag.

Adam Z wrote:Tobacco tale of woe: So I picked up a clay pipe today in Colonial Williamsburg. Through research I found that these clay tavern pipes they sell all over Colonial Williamsburg are in fact made by Old Dominion Pipes - it's their “Williamsburg” model. I was excited about trying this out, having read some positive stuff about clay pipes. I also visited Havana Connections a couple miles away. They're a small cigar shop that also carries some pipes and pipe tobacco. I saw they had in a large bulk jar a tobacco they call “Commonwealth” which, to my eyes, looks just like Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake (the only really similar looking flake I've seen is Escudo, but that doesn't have the cavendish center. Also, the store stocks “Proper English” bulk, so I can't imagine this is anything other than LBF) So I asked the guy working the counter if he could confirm that this is LBF being called by a different name. I couldn't get a straight answer from him - IDK if he was being evasive or ignorant.

Anyway - I got back to the motel and loaded a bowl of Commonwealth, noting how dry the tobacco seemed. Oh, my gosh - it was incredibly tasteless. Idk if it's all the air getting into the massive jars (air that was likely regularly permeated with cigar smoke - 4 people with Cigars burning when my wife and I walked in) The Virginias seem almost non-existent, and the perique is the most noticeable thing here. I wasn't all that impressed with the taste of it in the clay pipe. So upon finishing the pipe, I loaded some Star of the East flake from a jar I've been smoking, and found the taste to be noticably different as well, and not necessarily in a good way. The bowl gets hot, and the clay gives off a cool, dry smoke, but it just isn't the same taste as a briar or cob pipe. I don't know exactly how to describe it, but the overall smoking experience isn't at all what I'm used to enjoying. I guess the pipe just needs some breakin-in.

I decided to give the supposed LBF another try, this time in my Peterson 999. It was better than out of the clay, but it still not an enjoyable smoke, and I'm probably going to trash the rest of the bag.

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Interesting. Clays do smoke very differently that briars. The coins look similar but not identical to LBF to me... could just be very old tobacco. This is why I don’t like to buy tobacco from jars in B&Ms.

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Interesting. Clays do smoke very differently that briars. The coins look similar but not identical to LBF to me... could just be very old tobacco. This is why I don’t like to buy tobacco from jars in B&Ms.

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Yep.

Clays do taste like... clay. Not necessarily unpleasant, but if you're expecting the same experience as briar, you'll be disappointed. Ditto Johnny's comment about jarred tobacco at a store. I've been known to buy it, used to buy it a lot, but always check it for being old and dry first.

Now, check out the manufacture dates on the Acadian and the Bold Kentucky

Acadian - Dec 2015
Bold Kentucky - Jan 2016

Kind of fun to get two tins with 2 1/2 years age on them fresh from the store.

Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay - B. Springsteen

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. - 2 Tim 4:3-4

Couple more 100g tins of McClelland 40th Anniversary from a CPSer. Love this stuff. Best tobacco I ever have, or ever will have savored. As our 'ol Rusty would have said, it doesn't have any Perique and it doesn't need any.

"At present we're on the wrong side of the door. But all the pages of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so." ~ C.S. Lewis

Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay - B. Springsteen

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. - 2 Tim 4:3-4

I had a couple of bowls and have jarred it up. The tin was only 3 months old when I popped it and I think it might be better with at least 3 more months in a jar (but probably 6 more). I have realized I like PS LNF a lot more after 6 months in a jar over fresh, so, I am hoping the same here.

Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay - B. Springsteen

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. - 2 Tim 4:3-4

I had a couple of bowls and have jarred it up. The tin was only 3 months old when I popped it and I think it might be better with at least 3 more months in a jar (but probably 6 more). I have realized I like PS LNF a lot more after 6 months in a jar over fresh, so, I am hoping the same here.

Indeed I’ve got some with a few years on it.

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"Pleasures are shafts of the glory as it strikes our sensibility... Make every pleasure into a channel of adoration." ~C.S. Lewis